Speaker: Peter Heather

Topic: Christendom: the Triumph of a Religion

Venue: Vinson Lecture Theatre

Time: 12:00-13:00 Sunday 9 October

Talk Summary:

In the fourth century AD, a new religion, Christianity, emerged out of Palestine and with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 312 it began an ascendancy that, a thousand years later, would see it exercise a monolithic hold over European society. Peter Heather explains the extraordinary story of how a small sect of isolated congregations was transformed into a mass movement directed from Rome, whose ideas and teachings would reach almost every part of the world.